Fertilizer-distributer



(No Model.)

E. OSTENSEN.

FERTILIZER DISTR'IBUTER.

Patented Jan. 27, 1885.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

EINER OSTENSEN, OF HIGHLANDVILLE, IOWA.

FERTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 311,444, dated January27, 1885.

Application filed July "I, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EINER OSTENSEN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Highlandville, in the county of Winneshiek and State ofIowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFertilizer-Distributers; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of theinvention, which will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, which form a partof this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a top view of a portionof the frame and the box of my improved fertilizerdistributer. Fig. 2 isa similar view of the distributing-slide and its operating mechanism.Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 00 m, Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is abottom view of the fertilizer-slide.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

My invention has relation to machines for distributing plaster orsimilar fertilizers; and it consists in the detailed construction andcombination of parts of such a machine, as hereinafter more fullydescribed and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates a portion of theframe of a fertilizer-distribnter, which may be mounted in any desirablemanner, and B indicates a hopper for the reception of the fertilizingmaterial, which is secured upon the said frame, and is provided with aconcave bottom, 0, having two perforations, D, separated by a raisedpartition, E, which is provided with a vertical bearing, F, registeringwith a similar bearing, G, in a board, H, secured under the frame, witha low space between it, and provided with a downwardly-projecting spout,I, extending from a perforation, J, in the said board, registering withthe adjoining halves of the perforations in the bottom of the hopper. Adistributing-slide, K, having two perforations or cups, L, registeringwith the perforations in the bottom of the hopper, is pivoted by a shortshaft, M, passing through its middle, and turning in the bearings in thebottom of the hopper and in the board below it, and its end is providedwith a cogged segment, N, which meshes with a segment, 0, upon the edgeof a cam, I rocking upon a shaft, Q, which turns in vertical bearings Rin the frame and in the board below it, and which is connected in anysuitable manner to the mechanism for rocking the said shaft and coggedcam. The under side of the distributing-slide is pro vided with annularchannels S around the outer edges of the perforations or cups a shortdistance from the same, which channels connect with branch channels T,which open at the edge of the slide opposite to the edge near which theperforations or cups are, audit will be seen that as the cogged cam isrocked the slide is rocked, bringing the perforations in the slide toregister with the perforations in the bottom of the hopper, andthereupon alternately to register with the perforation in the boardleading into the spout, thus causing the fertilizer to fall into thecups and alternately be discharged into the spout; and it will also beseen that the fertilizing material, which will collect upon the upperside of the board under the frame and underneath the slide, will beconveyed off by the channels in the under side of the slide to the otheredge of the lower board of the frame, and be dropped upon the surface ofthe ground, fertilizing the same and preventing the slide from becomingclogged.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent of the United States- The combination of the hopperhaving a concave bottom provided with two perforations, the boardsecured below the bottom of the hopper, and provided with anoutlet-aperture and spout registering with the adjoining halves of theperforations in the bottom of the hopper, a slide pivoted to oscillatebetween the bottom of the hopper and the board, having two perforationsregistering with the perforations in the bottom of the hopper, havingchannels upon its under side, as described, and having one end providedwith a cogged segment,and a cogged cam adapted to be rocked oroscillated by any suitable conneotions,-as and for the purpose shown andset forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereuntoaffixed my signature 10 in presence of two witnesses.

hi EINER OSTENSEN.

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Witnesses:

R. F. GIEsoN, L. O. BREKKE.

